The four members of the SpaceX Crew-10 mission are set to climb aboard the Crew Dragon Endurance and depart the International Space Station on Friday evening for an overnight trip back to Earth.

NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA astronaut Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov launched to the station back on March 14 from Kennedy Space Center arriving a day later.

After 4 1/2 months on board, they are set to depart at 6:05 p.m. and then splash down off the coast of California at 11:33 a.m.

“As we complete our mission on space station, we really want to lead with gratitude for the absolute privilege of getting to live and work aboard this amazing International Space Station,” Crew-10 commander McClain said during a farewell ceremony Tuesday. “All of us a

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